Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-20
NO CUBE FOR CONSUMPTION
PhysIcians Who Bay9 Abandoned tho Bor
geon Method After a Tho rough Test.
New York Tribune.

sum DtIOn through LAS use q case o Is
euems:a has attracted 6 grust deal cf At
tent on amorg Fhysicia25 in private prsc-
tlce in this city,sHd from these connected
with iss many hospitals. Charity and
other hospital p2tiects ,suftolinZ from
tuberculosis or plthisi@, have Dttn
especiaIy tXparimentet upon. Hosp,t13
physicians Naturally to- k up the meih jd
teutstively. An occasional case is re-
ported where physician boCgma el Gu
tEusias ca the al -ct. Dr. I2gSG, tie
house surgeon Ct Ire Charity Hospital, is
said 70 have been one Th0 followed ex-
perimenfs on the Bergeon system s.ith
sEdor fer 2 time, while his assistant,
who had the direct and personal c1arge
Of the pa tents, was sk ptlcel thre u h0Gt,
end, i1 is said, declares The method Yalue-
less.
The use Of gaseous eremsLa for the cure
Of consumption was taken NJ st Bellevue,
Charity, the Workhouse and the New
York hospitals, and g. all Of these iusti-
tutI9ns it now seems TO have blen gbaI-
dOned, for the simple rGssaE that OK
perimtnts have shown hist there sis
nothing il tie mtLhCd.' Sulpluretted
hydrogen, the gaseous agent employed,
has been shown 20 De not geIm'c6e,
and this fact is enc reason assigned fl
the abandonment OF this plan Of GestTuC
ton of tuberculosis. There is profound
and elaborate mystery surrounding the
results of the administration OF gaseous
enemeta at the New York Hospital. Two
of the younger physicians there, en-
ployed under the house surgeCI, DR..
Richards, nave made the Interesting state
ments gwen below, cOndemnstCry
of the method. DIR. II chards bjfnscf ives
On his vacation st the time lie E2s now
returned. Yesterday, il response TO IL
quiIies as 20 the results Of lhe eHema,l
as preventing or curing consumption,
DR.. Richards replied: 81 prefer to say
nothing Ct the matter. l am preparing
an article for the MediCsl Review snd
shG!! there state ny conclusions. The
experiments are now Only in their teu1s-
tive stage" DIR. Il charis retired int
the re2icn Ct psych0mc,T.c n,ysrery, sHd
had nothing 10 say 20 the TACT thGt his
assistants, ignorant of his desires, hsG
ulwiltir2ly proclaimed The Ber4eoL
method q complete tsiuTc, ana they had
! personal charge Of tie cases, a. least
more thsu hall OF them.
"Thi5 BLOWN Z up process" said one Of
| TIE doctors, "w4s Complete failure.
! tried it on tour patients. Tle Cfac, OF
! the use CT gGS was rather startling The
| patients abdomen would be swell. q up as
| tight as 2 drum, a1d pains very much
! like collie resulted. The sulplutc.te by
drOgeu undoubtedly passed simOst i'm
mediately into the lungs. but il Eai no
t IF Ct In staying the d sga2e. g1e method
! is pretty tough en- the patient WEen
gave the enemata b fore meals the pa
TENTS appetite would be Destroyed, AND
| ii l gave them sf.er meals vomiting
would follow"
The acting superintendent at Bellevue
! Hospital Stated that the Bergl0n system
wss not in use tnel1. The effects Of the
! gaseous entm9tG nave in msny cases
| ueen good 6Ed encouraging for period
! Of some seven dayS; then patients have
relGp5ed. TIE Improvement Ter the short
! time mentioned IS assigned to mental
cause the patients bayipg faith that
/ they were to be benefited by the trest-
ment and throwing al, their souls into
! tue belief, exercise upon themselves ell
! ilflcnee which is ssid 10 be brought 10
| bear IN Instances Of marked faith cure -
| Dr.. y y. Collins, pIyeiCirn Of acute
! perCepd-r who had eleven cases of con
sumption grGar his charge ct Tie time
The Berge0a method had is run, End WAC
tried it on these ps tents a. Inc wO. &
! house hospital on BacK wells Islzpd,
states thai he has lost Gil faith in this
Wanted cure. fThc theory in TIE use Of
| gaseous enemste, ">eid re the ether day st
| Bellevue hospital, sis thst ph;hisis de-
| ponds en- the presence o. bsciili, and that
sulpauIettsd hydrogen is s germiCtdC o.
2nti3epjic. The gas i Introduced as 81
enema, spd is rapidly absorbed into the
ejaculation, going quickly 70 the right
heart AID thence to the lungs. TIE gge S.
difficulty in treating tuberculosis has U6eG
TO brig soy gaseous or Otner substance
into cO4tact with the lung tissue, which
is so sensitive that direct contact
with it is impossible. So fJr a. sur
mounting this difli,ulty is concerned,
there is no doubt Wnagever that the use
Of gaseous ensmata has been 3 successful
experim mt, for you can smell sulphur
e1ed hydrogen on the patients breath
within very short time after lis intro
duCuon into the Slimentary canal; this
fact showing that it is quickly in
trCduced into the circulation, and
thence conveyed through the heart tc
the lungs.
'I had eleven C0nsUmptiyes under my
care at the Workhouse hospital, and in
each case there was an Improvement for
about week. This was PROBABLY mora
effect. The patient wss aware that Lew
method, promising great results for good
IS alleged, Yves being tried, so that the
mental feet helped him for time
Then came relapse into the former con.
dttiOn. In 10 case was there permanent
help derived. The weeks temporary i'm
provement was fected in the same way
With patient who Did not have tuber.
culosis. Gaseous eDemats have been
used with good effect, en- told in cases
Of sporadic ssthmg. But the general
II dea now prevalent among physicians is
that t5is method Of treatment is failure
II has been dropped a. Bellevue, ct the
Charity hospital and on the Islands foI
| hisEszson."